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4th December 2018
09:51am GMT

'Est-ce que tu sais twerker?'She responded with a swift no in what should have been a massive moment for Hegerberg and women's football. https://twitter.com/FutbolLouiss/status/1069696086477025280 Ireland international McCabe was one of many female footballers to take exception with Solveig's sexist remark and questioned would he have asked the same question to men's Ballon d'Or winner Luka Modric? https://twitter.com/Katie_McCabe11/status/1069736844538118146 https://twitter.com/JanAageFjortoft/status/1069715323463589889 https://twitter.com/EniAlu/status/1069728109585420288 https://twitter.com/emma_coolen/status/1069710914528731136 https://twitter.com/WomeninFootball/status/1069748378551152641 "Apologies to anyone who may have been offended," Solveig wrote on Twitter."This was a joke, probably a bad one, and I want to apologise." In a video message, he added: "I am a little bit amazed as to what I am reading on the internet. I, of course, didn't want to offend anyone. "This comes from a distortion of my English level and my English culture level, which is obviously not enough because I didn't mean to offend anyone and didn't know this could be seen as such an offence. "Especially if you consider the sequence in total, when we ended up dancing to Frank Sinatra."
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